Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Contexts:
David Potter, A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State (1995)
The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629 (1995; 2nd edn 2005), chap. 1
Robert J. Knecht, The French Civil Wars, 1562-1598 (2000), chaps. 1-3
The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France, 1483-1610 (1996), esp. chaps. 1 & 17
J.H.M. Salmon, Society in Crisis: France in the Sixteenth Century (1975), part I
Henry Heller, Iron and Blood: Civil Wars in Sixteenth-Century France (1991), chap. 1
Monarchy:
David Potter, A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State (1995),
Mack P. Holt (ed.), Renaissance and Reformation France, 1500-1648 (2002), chap. 1
J.R. Major, From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles and
R.J. Knecht, The French Wars of Religion, 1559-1598 (2nd edn, 1996), chap. 2
Charles X (1984)
Penny Roberts, 'The Kingdom's Two Bodies? Corporeal Rhetoric and Royal
Jean Bodin, Six Books of the Commonwealth/Six livres de la République (1576; various
modern edns)
Historiography:
Mack P. Holt, 'Putting Religion Back into the Wars of Religion', French Historical
[see also H. Heller, ‘A Reply to Mack P. Holt’, French Historical Studies, 19 (1996)
Nicolette Mout, ‘Reformation, Revolt and Civil Wars: The Historiographic Traditions
of France and the Netherlands’, in P. Benedict et al (eds), Reformation, Revolt and Civil
467-74, review of Denis Crouzet, Les Guerriers de Dieu: La violence au temps des troubles
Monarchy:
David Potter, A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State (1995),
esp. chaps. 1-3
Mack P. Holt (ed.), Renaissance and Reformation France, 1500-1648 (2002), chap. 1
J.R. Major, From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles and
Estates (1994), chaps. 1-3
Historiography
Mack P. Holt, 'Putting Religion Back into the Wars of Religion', French Historical
Studies, 18 (1993), pp. 524-51
Nicolette Mout, ‘Reformation, Revolt and Civil Wars: The Historiographic Traditions
of France and the Netherlands’, in P. Benedict et al (eds), Reformation, Revolt and Civil
War in France and the Netherlands, 1555-1585 (1999), pp. 23-34